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  The Solitude of Prime Numbers

  by Paolo Giordano

  A stunning debut novel about the intertwined destinies of two friends brought together by childhood tragedy. A three-million-copy Italian bestseller and winner of that country’s prestigious Premio Strega award. A prime number is inherently a solitary thing: it can only be divided by itself, or by one: it never truly fits with another. Alice and Mattia, too, move on their own axis, alone with their personal... (more)
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  Blood men

  by Paul Cleave

  Edward Hunter has it all—a beautiful wife and daughter, a great job, a bright future? and a very dark past. Twenty years ago, a serial killer was caught, convicted, and locked away in the country's most hellish of penitentiaries. That man was Edward's father. Edward has struggled his entire life to put the nightmares of his childhood behind him. But a week before Christmas, violence once again makes an unwelcome... (more)
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  Scream: A DCI Mark Lapslie Investigation

  by Nigel McCrery

  As people disappear from his streets, and a handful of battered and broken bodies are discovered on his patch, Lapslie has no idea that he's up against a man who feels sound like he can taste it. He hunts people down. Men, women, anyone with a voice. He makes them hurt, he makes them bleed, he makes them scream. If the sound is ugly, he dispatches them without thought, but if it makes him feel good inside, he... (more)
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  The Things They Carried

  by Tim O'Brien

  One of the first questions people ask about The Things They Carried is this: Is it a novel, or a collection of short stories? The title page refers to the book simply as "a work of fiction," defying the conscientious reader's need to categorize this masterpiece. It is both: a collection of interrelated short pieces which ultimately reads with the dramatic force and tension of a novel. Yet each one of the... (more)
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  The Shape-Changer's Wife

  by Sharon Shinn

  From the national bestselling author of The Samaria Trilogy ...this is the novel that launched Sharon Shinn's career and inspired Peter S. Beagle to call her "the most original writer of fantasy since Robin McKinley." Aubrey was a student of the fine art of wizardry. But the more knowledge he acquired, the more he wanted to learn. He traveled in search of the greatest master of all, the gifted shape-changer... (more)
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  Brother to Dragons, Companion to Owls

  by Jane Lindskold

  Cutbacks have forced Sarah out of the asylum in which she was raised—and into a strange new place where the Head Wolf rules the beautiful and the doomed. But Sarah can never truly assimilate, for she possesses wild talents. Walls tell her their secrets. Safes tell her their combinations. And a favorite toy dragon whispers dire warnings about those who would exploit her for their own malevolent purposes. There’s... (more)
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  Sundowner

  by Chris Claremont

  Tired of life on the ground, Lieutenant Nicole Shea is delighted when she is asked to join the crew of the Starswift, the controversial first joint human-alien mission into space.
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  Summer King, Winter Fool

  by Lisa Goldstein

  When the god of summer falls in love with the human world and refuses to let the seasons change, Valemar, a young courtier, begins an unwilling quest that leads him to magic, love, and a throne. Reprint. AB.
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  Star Trek: The Original Series

  The Ashes of Eden

  by William Shatner

  For almost three decades, William Shatner has portrayed STAR TREK's gallant commander of the legendary Starship Enterprise and her crew. Now William Shatner brings his unique blend of talents as actor, writer, director, and producer, to tell the story only he can, of Captain Kirk's greatest adventure... The time: six months prior to the launch of the U.S.S. Enterprise 1701-B and the tragic loss of Captain... (more)
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  Monkeewrench: Book 2

  Live Bait

  by P. J. Tracy

  Minneapolis detectives Leo Magozzi and Gino Rolseth are bored-the Twin Cities have been in a murder-free dry spell. But when elderly Morey Gilbert is found dead, the crime drought ends. And the detectives are ready for some help-from Grace McBride and her offbeat crew at a little software company called Monkeewrench.
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  Sex Kittens

  by Ashley Ladd, Myra Nour

  Cat Maiden By Myra Nour What happens when the gods play tricks on humans… Madria leads a very satisfying life as a cat, until one night when she stumbles into two gods. They are arguing and the goddess points at Madria, changing her into a human. Stunned, confused, she manages to drag herself home and collapse on her master's doorstep. During a raging thunderstorm, Antonius' beloved cat runs outside and... (more)
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  Blindfold

  by Kevin J. Anderson

  Falsely accused of murder, Troy Boren unsuccessfully puts his fate in the hands of Truthsayer Kalliana, a telepathic justice from the Atlas colony who is shaken by her fading powers and mounting evidence that Troy is innocent.
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  Left for Dead

  by Kevin O'Brien

  When Claire Shaw wakes in a Seattle hospital, she remembers nothing of what has happened to her. She doesn't recognize the concerned faces of her husband and friends. She knows only that she is lucky to be alive, the single surviving victim of a vicious serial killer. She was a mistake - not like the others. She didn't understand. That was obvious now. But she would come to understand. Next time, there would be no... (more)
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  Psion: Book 2

  Catspaw

  by Joan D. Vinge

  CAT: Street Punk, Psion, Telepath, Survivor. . . Kidnapped by an interstellar corporation and dragged to Earth, Cat is forced to use his skills to protect those he most hates, those who most hate him . . . . The taMings. A cyber-augmented, DNA-incestuous clan of such wealth and power that their family arguments change the destiny of worlds. Now one taMing is a killer's target. But which? And who would dare? ... (more)
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  Sholan Alliance series: Book 1

  Turning Point

  by Lisanne Norman

  With Keiss conquered by Valtegan invaders, the colonists' only hope is Carrie, a telepath who rescues Kusac, a felinoid victim of a starship crash, but first the two must convince their races to band together to defeat the Valtegans. Original.
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  Mischling, Second Degree

  My Childhood in Nazi Germany

  by Ilse Koehn

  The memoirs of a German girl who became a leader among the Hitler Youth while her Social Democratic family kept from her the secret of her partial Jewish heritage.
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  POSSIBLE WORLDS OF SCIENCE FICTION: Enchanted Village; Lilies of Life; Asleep in Armageddon; Not Final; The Pillows; Propagandist; In Value Deceived; Space Rating; Limiting Factor; The Helping Hand

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  Knights of the Ruby Order: Book 1

  Torn and Crag

  by Kate Hill

  Knights of the Ruby Order - Torn By Kate Hill Book 1 in the Knights Of The Ruby Order series Drenched in blood and sweat, Sir Torn is thrust before the healer known as Honey Wine that she might prepare him for the brutal Entertainment to come: a slave—Torn—fighting another slave to the death for the depraved ruler's amusement. The new slave's arrogant nature piques Honey Wine's interest in more ways than... (more)
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  Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes

  by Eleanor Coerr, Ronald Himler

  Hiroshima-born Sadako is lively and athletic--the star of her school's running team. And then the dizzy spells start. Soon gravely ill with leukemia, the "atom bomb disease," Sadako faces her future with spirit and bravery. Recalling a Japanese legend, Sadako sets to work folding paper cranes. For the legend holds that if a sick person folds one thousand cranes, the gods will grant her wish and make her healthy... (more)
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  Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Book 11

  Devil in the Sky

  by Greg Cox, John Gregory Betancourt

  The Hortas of Janus VI are the greatest miners in the galaxy, capable of burning through solid rock the way humanoids move through air. Recruited to help rebuild Bajor's devastated mining industry, the Hortas could provide new hope for the planet's struggling economy. But when Cardassian raiders abduct the Mother Horta, Commander Sisko finds himself stuck with twenty Horta eggs -- and then the eggs begin to... (more)